The Intelligence Platform That Actually Acts.

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is the collection, processing, and analysis of data about existing or emerging cyber threats to enable proactive defense. It transforms raw threat data — indicators of compromise, dark web discussions, leaked credentials, threat actor profiles — into actionable insights that help organizations anticipate, detect, and respond to attacks before they cause damage.

The four types are: Strategic (executive-level risk context and business impact analysis), Operational (specific campaign details including threat actor motivations and timing), Tactical (tactics, techniques, and procedures mapped to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK), and Technical (machine-readable indicators like malicious IPs, file hashes, leaked credentials, and stealer logs used for automated detection and blocking).

The threat intelligence lifecycle is a six-phase continuous process: Direction (defining requirements), Collection (gathering data from dark web, OSINT, and commercial sources), Processing (normalizing and translating raw data), Analysis (creating contextualized intelligence), Dissemination (delivering to stakeholders and automated systems), and Feedback (evaluating effectiveness and refining the program). Each phase feeds back into the others for continuous improvement.

Threat intelligence focuses on collecting, analyzing, and reporting data about threats — who the adversaries are, what methods they use, and what indicators to watch for. Threat Exposure Management (TEM) extends this by adding automated detection and remediation of actual organizational exposures like leaked credentials, exposed secrets, and brand impersonation. Where CTI tells you what to watch for, TEM finds your specific exposures and acts on them automatically.

Dark web forums, marketplaces, and Telegram channels are where threat actors trade stolen credentials, sell corporate network access, coordinate ransomware campaigns, and distribute exploit tools. Monitoring these sources provides early warning of organizational exposure — often days or weeks before an attack materializes. In 2025, over 3.3 billion compromised credentials were circulated on underground platforms, making dark web monitoring essential for any serious CTI program.

Traditional CTI platforms focus on collecting and reporting threat data. Flare extends CTI into Threat Exposure Management — detecting your organization’s actual exposures across 58,000+ Telegram channels, hundreds of dark web forums, and stealer log markets, then automatically remediating through integrations with Entra ID, SIEM, SOAR, and ticketing systems. Flare deploys in under 30 minutes and collapses the intelligence-to-action lifecycle from days to seconds.

Stealer logs are data packages harvested by infostealer malware — like RedLine, Raccoon, Vidar, and Lumma — from infected devices. They contain saved passwords, session cookies, browser autofill data, and authentication tokens. Stealer logs are particularly dangerous because they often include active session cookies that allow attackers to bypass multi-factor authentication entirely. Flare collects over 1 million new stealer logs weekly and automatically cross-references them against your enterprise identities.

Flare monitors 58,000+ Telegram channels, hundreds of dark web forums and marketplaces, 50+ paste sites, ransomware leak sites, stealer log markets, initial access broker listings, and clear web sources. The platform maintains nearly a decade of archived data for historical context, trend analysis, and threat actor profiling.